The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-01
THE SUBTLE SYMPATHY.
AN EXCURSION INTO PSYCHIC
LOGIC REALMS.
The Power 0fOne Mind Over Another
Interesting Experiments With
Newly Revealed Force.

Magazine contains an article emit
tied Mind Magic" by George d.
Day, which possesses peculiar inter
est from its near kinship to the
mind reading" which is at this
time attracting popular attention.
The subtle influence which the mind
is capable of exercising has i'm
pressed every one who has taken the
trouble to think about it. All minds
possess this quality, although in
some persons 1t is SO slight as to be
hardly appreciable, while in others
it is SO highly developed that APP
parently without any effort on their
part they are able to attract and con-
troll the minds of those with whom
they come in contact to the degree
of moulding their wills and actions
in conformity with the dictates of
their own. This accounts for the
fascination which different persons
have over one another. By means of
mind domination the public speaker
is able to hold his audience in sub
lection to his influence; without it
his words, no matter how eloquent
or fetching, would fall fiat.
But remarkable as this peculiarly
appears when it occurs in every day
life, it is still more mysterious when
exercised under conditions that still
further intensity its power. 1t has
been clearly demonstrated that per-
sons of great strength of mind and
will are capable of exerting an in
iuence upon the minds OF others that
seems to be little short of witchery
So strong sympathy may be estab
lished that the will of one becomes
merged in that OF the other, often to
the extent that the unspoken wish is
reproduced 10 the mind of the sub
ject. Phenomena oil this description
are plentiful.
Nor is this magical power of the
mind limi ed within these bounds.
In cases where this sympathetic abil-
ity is possessed in large degree the
influence OF this domination OF mind
over mind IS so marked as to annihi-
late time and space, and the same in
huence is exerted as when the per.
sons affected are in each others pres
ence. This is no myth, but a sub
stantial fact, testified to by men of
the highest intelligence and most
unimpeachable veracity. This quail
ity also exists in the lower branches
of the animal world, and tends to
prove the existence of some mystic
faculty by which the weaker will be-
come subject to the more powerful
will Of another. What this occult
power really is has long puzzled the
minds Of scientists. This is the
power on which the spiritual Its
have founded their remarkable theo-
ries, and which has latterly received
the attention of many anxious to in
vestigate the mysteries of the invisi-
BILE and dabble with the secret lore
of psychical mysteries.
And yet the writer thinks there is
an undoubted probability, which fur
Their Investigations increase, that
such phenomena are mainly due 10
the existence of magnetic fluid i'm
ORIGINATING all organic bodies, which,
although not analogous in every re.
spect to electricity, yet resembles it
it many particulars: This hypothe-
sis, he says, was virtually corrobo-
rated by Riechenbach. who an
nounced the discovery of a subtle
force to which he gave the name of
Cd, and which he stated permeated
all nature, and manifested itself in
luminous emanation at the poles of
magnets and crystals whenever
chemical action is going on. The
human body, according to his state
ment, was surrounded by this subtle
force, which was visible to certain
persons called "sensitives," and man
Tested itself more particularly at the
tips of the fingers in kind of lumin-
GUS vapor, and possessed positive and
negative poles as in magnetism, being
negative on the right and positive on
the left.
1t was DIR. Mayo, however, who
demonstrated the modus operandi of
this newly revealed force, and estab-
lished an objective proof of its ex
istence which had hitherto only
lived in the brains of its progenitors.
The experiments which he conduct
ed with Herr Caspari are so mysteri-
Gus, and at the same time so inter-
esting and conclusive character,
that it is remarkable they are not
more universally known.
Taking gold ring in his hand, he
attached to it a piece OF silk, by
which he held the ring suspended
over piece of silver at a distance
of about half an inch, when, after a
few uncertain movements, the ring
began to escillate to and from the
operator.
Removing the silver, he then sus-
pended the ring over the finger of
his left hand, when it assumed an
other motion; and, again, having
held the ring over the thumb of the
left hand, he discovered that the ro-
tary motion was reversed.
Astonished at these eccentricities,
they made them the subject Of cru
cial experiments, and after awhile
with the following results:
A ring, fragment OF shellac, or
any other substance suspended by a
thread or piece of silk, the other end
of which was wound round the first
joint of the torefnger, they termed
an odometer. The materials on
which they experimental with the
odometer they termed the cd sub
jects, and consisted of gold, silver,
lead, zinc, copper Goals, bone, char
coal, sealing wax, ETC.. but the mate
rial which proved most effcacious as
an odometer consisted of piece of
shellac about an inch long, and by
this means the following results, Sc
lected from great number of expert.
ments, were adduced
Odometer suspended from forefn-
ger held over heap of sovereigns. |
Result-longitudinal oscillations.
Experimenter, continuing above
experiment, takes with his uuen-
gagged hand the hand Of person of |
the opposite sex. Result-trans-
MANIA OSCILLATIONS nf fha odnmafar